Each week we’ll endeavour to publish some details of the interesting things that members of DoES Liverpool have been up to over the past seven days. You can find out a bit more about them in our introductory post.
And remember, if you’re involved with DoES Liverpool at all, let us know what you get up to so we can include it here!
COVID-19
Click here for details of the of the measures we’re currently taking related to the COVID-19 situation, especially if you’re thinking of coming in to the space. We’ll keep you updated if anything changes – make sure you’re following us via our Google Group, and/or via social media.
If you need visors then please fill in the “Request Visors” form at https://visors.doesliverpool.com/ – you don’t need to work for the NHS.
Things of Note
- DoES Liverpool: New resident Doug getting straight into one of our GitHub “Somebody Should” issues by taking a look at our broken microwave oven #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/j5SypGrGof
- Aʅҽx Lҽɳɳσɳ: Love this. “Need marmite so I wanna make a bioreactor” #making #weeknotes twitter.com/mrjuoji/status…
- Adrian McEwen: Nice surprise waiting on my desk when I called in yesterday. Nice to be featured with DoES Liverpool in Unravel Tomorrow‘s gallery of pioneers #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/wbbSyg3qt3
- DoES Liverpool: Welcome back to workshop member @draughtworx after several months travelling round Europe in his camper van – he’s planning to build up the catalog for his laser cut jewellery business and put together a new YouTube travelog/how-to channel #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/quxeX3vnTf
- Adrian McEwen: The latest MCQN Ltd #weeknotes are also #DecadeAndAHalfnotes so are a bit of a mix of what-I-did-last-week and thinking-about-the-future mcqn.com/posts/week-783…
- DoES Liverpool: Abdullah working on a prototype for his fully automated glue removal system for mobile phone repair (the prototype is based on an old 3d printer)
#weeknotes pic.twitter.com/jXvg8BqK8F
- Aʅҽx Lҽɳɳσɳ: Next job: Getting the #BMP280 sorted out publishing data over #MQTT for the #BeeHive project with Andrea #weeknotes
- MCQN Ltd: Turning waste acrylic from the DoES Liverpool #LaserCutter into LED shims for the next batch of Museum in a Box PCBs #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/j2tOJc18Fl
- Aʅҽx Lҽɳɳσɳ: It also forced business to work in a new way. A way that many today think was always how things were done. Google #FUD. The next battle is #OpenData. #weeknotes twitter.com/stile65/status…
- DoES Liverpool: Earlier today – Julian Todd controlling some of the #geometriclights @doesliverpool using an #esp32 with WLED #weeknotes pic.twitter.com/NfVWjjsYbs
Coming Up in the Next Week
| Tuesday 13 October, 7:00pm-9:00pm | Wearable Tech Group Online at https://meet.jit.si/bubblino (original Jitsi address) – featuring a short talk by Karen Scott on “using a niddy nod for prepping yarn for dyeing, process and showing some of the results” |
| Thursday 15 October, 7:00pm-8:00pm | Community Meeting https://jitsi.doesliverpool.com/bubblino (new Jitsi address) |
| Thursday 15 October, 8:00pm-9:30pm |
Maker Night Online at https://jitsi.doesliverpool.com/bubblino (new Jitsi address) |
Somebody Should
The DoES Liverpool to-do list is stored in the issues of our Somebody Should repository on github. Head over there if there’s something you’d like to report, or if you want to help out fixing things.
Issue counts: 345 open, 1159 closed
5 new issues:
- Please add me to the Does Liverpool Somebody should repository.
- The laser head appears to be randomly moving to other parts of the bed between cuts
- Devices on Ubiquiti WLAN AP cannot access LAN devices by DNS registered hostname (UNTRUE, premature evaluation)
- Fix the local DNS/DHCP server caching/leasing
- The microwave isn’t working
Featured issue: Rear fire escape shutter is dysfunctional, does not close.. Can we move this on or close it?
4 issues closed:
- Please add me to the Does Liverpool Somebody should repository.
- Devices on Ubiquiti WLAN AP cannot access LAN devices by DNS registered hostname (UNTRUE, premature evaluation)
- The microwave isn’t working
- Unable to save simple Inkscape drawing as dxf on laser PC
Thanks blancmatter, MatthewCroughan!